May Shelley

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   #womensHistoryMonth

   What do many consider the first #scienceFiction?

   One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?

   #MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"

   Written as a *teenager*

   A teenager who had recently lost a baby

   I think that's key

   Horror not from taking life

   But creating life

   She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain

   The summer was cold and rainy so Lord Byron (yes him) proposed a #ghostStory #writingContest

   I think she won